Tony Hayward

Chief Executive Officer

Tony is a 30+ year veteran of the IT industry, and a serial entrepreneur.  Prior to Cazneau, Tony founded and ran AIM Technology, a leader in analytical and process applications focused on performance management in the call center, which was acquired by Aspect Software in December 2008.  Prior to AIM, Hayward was SVP EMEA Operations at Holistic Systems, a business intelligence company, and continued this role after its acquisition by Seagate Software IMG.  Previously, he held senior sales positions with software company, Tandem.  Tony’s corporate experience includes entrepreneurial product development and company expansion across new territories.  He was educated in the UK.

Jeff Hamaoui

President and Founder

Jeff Hamaoui is an expert in sustainability and public-private partnerships with 15 years’ experience exploring business models and unique approaches to social entrepreneurship. He began his work as a teacher in Venezuela and Canada before moving to the Avina Foundation to work with for- and non-profit leaders in sustainability and social enterprise throughout South America and Europe. 

Jeff co-founded Origo in 1999, and has since positioned himself to work as a cross-sector broker, facilitator, and strategist by working with the U.S. government to formulate public-private partnerships between agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department, NASA and PEPFAR, and the venture community, pension funds and a wide diaspora of companies and foundations.  This work led Jeff to co-found ECO Capital Partners for clean technology and sustainability in the U.S., India and China.

Previously, Jeff spent several years working alongside the World Business Council for Sustainable Development  and its 150 Fortune 500 companies looking at strategies for ‘inclusive’ business in emerging markets. This allowed him to consult across industry sectors, including healthcare (Pfizer), telecommunications (Vodafone, Nokia), oil and gas (BP and Chevron), utilities (Eskom, Suez, GE), and finance (Rabobank, Deutschebank, Wells Fargo, GE Financial). 

Jeff sits on the boards of the Presidio Management School, TechSoup, and Play Rugby USA.  He received his M.A. in Education from London University and B.A. in Philosophy and Literature from Swansea University.  He is fluent in Spanish and French.

Rachel Lawley

Healthcare Connector

Rachel Lawley is a healthcare and life sciences business development and new markets professional with seven years’ experience supporting bio/pharmaceutical and medtech companies to enter new markets.  In her current role as Healthcare Connector, she is project manager for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s initiative to engage private capital.

Rachel worked for many years as Vice Consul for Life Sciences at the British Consulate-General in San Francisco, facilitating connections between companies, researchers, funders, regulators, and government agencies in the U.S. and U.K.  She has worked with C-level contacts in a wide range of companies, and has convened cross-sector forums to encourage collaboration between key stakeholders in life sciences economic policy, stem cell science, point of care diagnostics, and clean technology.

Rachel started her career with Origo, Inc. (now part of The Cazneau Group), and has a deep knowledge of the social enterprise field, having created and managed the Origo Cross Sector News, an e-newsletter reporting trends in social enterprise across the public, private, third, and fourth sectors.  She received her B.S. in Psychology from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.

Jeremy Kamo

Cleantech Connector

Jeremy Kamo is a cleantech and partnerships professional, bringing a wide range of international business development experience to the Cazneau team.  His particular interest is in building transactional networks, where partnerships are based on the mutual pursuit of tangible opportunities.

Starting his career at the British Government's UK Trade and Investment department in San Francisco and Seattle, Jeremy worked in the electronics and communications industry building public-private relationships, developing policy recommendations and supporting US and UK companies expanding into new markets.

In 2008, Jeremy relocated to Beijing, China, where he worked for a financial services company, managing onsite projects in Asia and Europe, and concurrently worked with NGOs in the education, medical services and renewable energy sectors.   Just before joining Cazneau, Jeremy filled a brief contract with the British Government's Science and Innovation office in San Francisco, drafting a sustainable energy policy report and developing relationships between researchers in the UK and US, encouraging collaboration on strategic policies issues.

Jeremy is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound with a BA from the school’s selective Business Leadership Program, and a Minor in Economics, supplemented by language studies in Chiba, Japan and Beijing, China. He serves on the Partnership Advisory board for Compassion for Migrant Children, a Chinese NGO providing resources and education to migrant communities in Beijing and Shanghai.  On weekends, Jeremy braves the frigid waters of Northern California and the "men in the grey suits" to find enlightenment by sliding waves (aka: surfing).

Josephine Kreider

Accounts Connector

Jo came out of semi-retirement to join the Origo family in May 2009.  She has worked for small entrepreneurial companies for over 30 years usually in management/finance.  Most recently she retired from BCCI Construction in San Francisco where she was Controller/Director of Finance for 16 years.   The company specialized in Commercial Interior work in San Francisco and went from 25 employees and $11 million in sales to 155 employees and $125 million in sales during her tenure.

Jo graduated from University of California Santa Barbara with a degree in Anthropology and received an MBA 19 years later from St Mary’s College in Moraga.  Along the way she has always been interested in “random facts” and taken many classes ranging from film studies to glass fusing and construction practices.  She is currently enrolled in the Olli Lifelong Learning program at Dominican University.  

She enjoys the Marin Symphony and Marin Lecture Series in the winter and hiking and travel activities in the summer.  Having “retired” from running, bicycling and outrigger canoe racing, she now enjoys hiking the wonderful trails of Marin and other places all over the world.  She and her Shiba Inu, Bijou, are busy in the summers taking road trips in their tiny yellow travel trailer to the Southwest and Wyoming.  Next year it’s the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Island.  

Jo has served on the board of directors of two non-profit organizations.  She has been the Treasurer of Tamalpais Outrigger Canoe Club for 15 years.  In addition she joined the Marin Audubon Society board in January 2006 as Treasurer.  She also does occasional volunteer jobs for the Mill Valley Film Festival and Dipsea Race.  She supports a number of local causes relating to the environment, animals and the arts.